Quantum Units Education®

1 How Common Is Electronic Aggression Victimization and Perpetration?

1. Although electronic aggression is a fairly new topic of investigation, studies indicate that ________ of young people are victims and ________ are perpetrators of electronic harassment or bullying.

What Problems Are Associated with Being a Victim of Electronic Aggression?

2. Available data indicate that victims of electronic aggression experience distress associated with electronic aggression, and the amount of emotional distress experienced by a victim seems to be related to the relationship between the victim and perpetrator and the frequency of the aggression.

What Problems Are Associated with Being a Perpetrator of Electronic Aggression?

3. Young people who reported perpetrating electronic aggression were not likely to report perpetrating face-to-face aggression.

4. Each of the following were reported by young people as factors that prevented them from becoming perpetrators of electronic, physical, and verbal aggression EXCEPT:

What are the Empirically Supported Prevention and Intervention Strategies?

5. Data indicate that installing computer blocking software to prevent young people from accessing certain websites is an effective strategy to reduce electronic aggression.

Power Imbalance

6. Electronic aggression is unique in that it allows adolescents to mask their identity when they perpetrate aggression by sending messages anonymously or under assumed or falsified identities, it limits a victim's ability to respond in a way that may ordinarily stop a peer's aggressive behavior, and it allows perpetrators to attack at any time and in any place.

Prevention and Intervention Strategies

7. Attention is needed to the individual and contextual factors that may influence perpetration via new media, such as anonymity, ___________, and power in order to inform the development of treatment and prevention strategies.